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diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md index 1b1913ea65e..d50c0d6582b 100644 --- a/src/doc/reference.md +++ b/src/doc/reference.md @@ -1255,9 +1255,7 @@ fn my_err(s: &str) -> ! { We call such functions "diverging" because they never return a value to the caller. Every control path in a diverging function must end with a `panic!()` or a call to another diverging function on every control path. The `!` annotation -does *not* denote a type. Rather, the result type of a diverging function is a -special type called ⊥ ("bottom") that unifies with any type. Rust has no -syntax for ⊥. +does *not* denote a type. It might be necessary to declare a diverging function because as mentioned previously, the typechecker checks that every control path in a function ends |